 any any one of those. Andrew, can you indicate the connection between art and love? Yes. I mean both of that to make you happy or to enhance your happiness, to contribute to your happiness. Both of us sponsors the sense of life. Iron Man makes this point in the romantic manifesto. Let me just let me just find this once and once and once. Let's see where is it. So let me read you from romantic manifesto because this is where she talks about it. There are two aspects of man's existence which are special province and expression of his sense of life. That's the sense you have about the world, the sense that is derived from the answers you give to them. This is me talking to the most fundamental question. You know what is existence? Why am I here? Can't because reality knowable? The sense that the emotional state, the emotional world in which you live, that comes from having answered those questions and a variety of questions like that, fundamental questions about yourself. That sense of life, so the two special provinces of expression of a sense of life are love and art. And I continue reading from Iron Man. I'm referring here to a romantic love in the serious meaning of that term as distinguished from the superficial infatuations of those whose sense of life is devoid of any consistent values, of any lasting emotions other than fear. Love is a response to values. It is with a person's sense of life that one falls in love. With that essential sum, that fundamental stand or way of facing existence which is the essence of a personality. When falls in love with the embodiment of the values that form the person's character, which are reflected in his wildest, whitest goals and smallest gestures, which create the style of his soul. Wow. The style of his soul, the individual style of a unique, unrepeatable, irreplaceable consciousness. That is such beautiful writing. What a deep thinker, what a beautiful writer how he could condense so much into the style of his soul. So what you fall in love with is the style of somebody's soul. Let's see. And of course, each one of us is unique, as each one of us has a style and part of the challenge in life is to control that style, to shape that style, particularly when you're young with the right kind of values, with the right kind of ideas, with the right kind of conclusions. Excuse me. It is one's own sense of life that acts as the selector. So you respond to somebody else's sense of life, but it's your sense of life which is responding to this. So it's one's own sense of life that acts as a selector in response to what it recognizes as one's own basic values in the person of another. It is not a matter of professed convictions, though these are not irrelevant. It is a matter of much more profound conscious and subconscious harmony. So set those things in which there's harmony between the conscious and subconscious when it's good, right? And that leads to this particular soul, particular style, particular sense of life. Many errors, and this is Ayn Rand, many errors and tragic disillusionments are possible in this process of emotional recognition. Since the sense of life by itself is not a reliable cognitive guide. This is the importance of introspection, of recognizing your sense of life, recognizing that your values, recognizing when you are pursuing them, when you're not pursuing them, what they are. And if they are, there's again Ayn Rand, and if they are degrees of evil, then one of the most evil consequences of mysticism in terms of human suffering is the belief that love is a matter of the heart, not the mind, that love is an emotion independent of reason, that love is blind and impervious to the power of philosophy. Love is the expression of philosophy, of a subconscious philosophical sum, and perhaps no other aspect of human existence needs the conscious power of philosophy quite so desperately. It's beautiful. When that power is called upon to verify and support an emotional appraisal, when love is a conscious integration of reason and emotion, of mind and values, then and only then, it is the greatest reward of a man's life. Man feels like tears, feels like getting all emotional. That is amazing writing and amazing thinking and deep, deep, right? When that power is called upon to verify and support an emotional, she feel an emotion, but you don't act on emotions. Now you have to bring forward the power of reason to appraise the emotion, right? And when that appraisal is consistent with the emotion and both are for love, right? When love is a conscious integration of reason and emotion, you've thought about it, you feel this emotion, but you're also thinking about it. Yes, this makes sense when you get that integration, right? When love is a conscious integration of reason and emotion, of mind and values, mind and the things one acts to gain to keep the things that are crucial to one's own happiness and life and flourishing. So well written. When love is a conscious integration of reason and emotion, of mind and values, then and only then, it is the greatest reward of man's life. There you have it, folks. That is worth fighting for. That is worth loving for. That is worth living for. And if you haven't read the romantic manifesto, go read it. And if you ever read Iron Rand, go read Iron Rand. So hopefully that gave you a little bit of motivation. All right, everybody. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. 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